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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Japanese language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...
Tourists tend to pronounce it similarly to the name of the city in Texas, while the New York pronunciation is HOW-stun (/ ˈ h aʊ s t ən /). [ 64 ] Hull , Massachusetts, would seem to be pronounced / h ʌ l / , as in the exterior of a ship, but locals will invariably render it / h ɔː l / homophonous to "hall", as in a corridor.
Aculifera (older name: Amphineura) is a proposed clade of molluscs incorporating those groups that have no conch or shell, that is, the Polyplacophora, Caudofoveata (=Chaetodermomorpha) and Solenogastres (=Neomeniomorpha). [1] It is sister to the Conchifera.
The Japanese term is kōtei akusento (高低アクセント, literally "high-and-low accent"), [1] and it refers to pitch accent in languages such as Japanese and Swedish. It contrasts with kyōjaku akusento (強弱アクセント, literally "strong-and-weak accent"), [1] which refers to stress.
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Hiragana are generally used to write some Japanese words and given names and grammatical aspects of Japanese. For example, the Japanese word for "to do" (する suru) is written with two hiragana: す (su) + る (ru). Katakana are generally used to write loanwords, foreign names and onomatopoeia.
The Japanese liquid is most often realized as an alveolar tap [ɾ], though there is some variation depending on phonetic context. [1] /r/ of American English (the dialect Japanese speakers are typically exposed to) is most commonly a postalveolar central approximant with simultaneous secondary pharyngeal constriction [ɹ̠ˤ] or less commonly a retroflex approximant [ɻ].